Energy and Nutrient Flows in the Food Chain. The Big Picture is Missing

1. Name and title of the person who formulated the commitment

Pertti Keskitalo

2. Name of the committing organization

Tritonet Ltd.

Please indicate also the type of the organisation

a corporation

3. Home country of the committing organisation

Finland

Organization homepage (like www.bsas.fi)

www.tritonet.fi

4. Contact person – content of the commitment – name

Pertti Keskitalo

Contact person – content of the commitment – email address (in standard format like name@organization.com)

pertti.keskitaloREMOVETHISCAPITALTEXT[at]tritonet.fi

Contact person – content of the commitment – phone number

+358-400596411

5. Contact person – for communication – name

Pertti Keskitalo

Contact person – for communication – email address (in standard format like name@organization.com)

pertti.keskitaloREMOVETHISCAPITALTEXT[at]tritonet.fi

Contact person – for communication – phone number

+358-400596411

6. Contact person – for communication – postal address

Pinninkatu 53C
FI-33100 Tampere
Finland

9. Commitment title and designation/acronym etc (that you wish to use)

Energy and Nutrient Flows in the Food Chain. The Big Picture is Missing

10. Nature of commitment

Professional service

11. Description of commitment and the implementation strategy

Varsinais-Suomi and Satakunta counties are in many respect crucial for Finnish farming and Food Stuff industry. The purpose of this study is to highlite the energy and nutrient flows of the Food System. How much is originating from the local are and how much is imported from outside? What is the realistic approach for reuse of nutrients locally? Shall some of the nutrients be exported in order to close the balance? What is the real amount of bioenergy potential after we reduce the amount of energy used to produce the biomass? This study will produce relevant information for long term design of environmental resources in county as well as on country and Baltic levell.

12. Focus area (see HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan)

Eutrophication

Focus area(s), if other

Varsinais-Suomi, Satakunta, Kanta Häme

13. Objective of commitment and its impact on the Baltic Sea (temporary, permanent, etc.)

The objective ofthe study is to produce a tool that can be used to evaluate the food production and consumption as well as total biomass production on any given are. In minor scale the are can be one farm and in major scale the whole Baltic are. The county scale has been sellected for this study. The impact for locall decission making is believed to be the best in this scale.

14. What is needed for the commitment to be successful? (one-time action, continuous support or/and financing, support for a certain time period)

Tritonet ltd. is the coordinator of the project but only part of the work will by carried out by our own organization. Co operation with Universities and research institutes is most wellcome. Discussons for finanzing have been started .

15. Geographic scope of the commitment (Gulf of Finland, the Baltic Proper, the Belt Sea and the Kattegat, the whole Baltic Sea, etc.)

Varsinais- Suomi and Satakunta are the areas of key interest. To verify the concept tool Kanta-Häme will be a reference county for the project.

17. Is your commitment/contribution a highly significant, significant, medium or minor effort to your organisation?

Highly significant effort

18. Starting date

2010 March 1^st

20. Expected commitment duration

24 months

19. First / next milestone - title

Finalize the concept and partners

First / next milestone - date

2010 June 26^th

First / next milestone - description

Financing discussions

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